Fresh avalanches have forced rescue workers to call off the search for bodies in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake.

Kathmandu |
Updated: May 11, 2015 8:14 am

An avalanche on the southern side of Mt. Everest due to the devastating Nepal earthquake that hit on April 25, 2015 and killed more than 8,000 people while injured more than 16,000 others.(Source: @NorthmenPK/Twitter)

About 1,000 of them lined up outside a camp in Bhaktapur, a suburb east of Kathmandu, on Sunday to get a small sack of food and supplies.

“I have been standing in the line for hours so I can pick up food for my family. I am living with my parents, my wife, children and brothers in the open and are totally dependent on these relief materials,” said Ramesh Boyaju, 27, a transport worker who has been without job for two weeks.

Another resident, Rupesh Sayaju, said the quake reduced his four-story house to 1 ½ floors. “We were staying on the ground floor of the damaged house but it flooded last night. Now we have no place to go. We are now in the open,” he said.

People waiting in line received a sack of rice, lentils, cooking oil, toothpaste, brush and a towel by members of the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation, one of the many international organizations that have been working to help people in Nepal.

UN officials say the international response to the humanitarian crisis has been slow, with hundreds of thousands of people in need of shelter before monsoon rains begin next month.

The UN estimates that as many as 8 million people have been affected by the earthquake.